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...Hisham Nazir, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is Minister of Planning. That makes him boss of the world's largest and most ambitious development plan: a fiveyear, $142 billion scheme to build plants, roads and housing...
...Jeff, a Berkeley Bakunin, worked at shutting down the Establishment and the war; Susie kept nagging him to take a shower and use deodorant. They became, writes Sara Davidson, "a showpiece couple. They demonstrated and went to jail together." They did everything together except levitate the Pentagon. Tasha, with her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, was the arty one. She fell in love with a well-known sculptor and worried about having small breasts...
Loose Change started out as a promising idea: a kind of updating of The Group, a Mary McCarthy treatment of three women who attended Berkeley in the early '60s, then went caroming through the rest of the manic decade trying to understand both themselves and the cultural eruptions all around them -an impossibility. "In that time that decade which belonged to the young," writes Davidson, "we had thought life was free and would never run out. We were certain we belonged to a generation that was special. We did not need or care about history because we had sprung...
...these young Jews following Jesus? Theodore Freedman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith says they are "largely children with emotional problems." Donald LeMagdeleine, a Roman Catholic who is conducting the first careful survey of the young converts for a thesis at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, disagrees. They want a religious experience that they did not find in their synagogues or in Jewish cultural upbringing, he says. "They are not looking for Jewish rap groups. They are looking...
...work seem not to matter. Beyond them, one sees the profound consistency with which he has pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp glazed intercuts of Ocean Park...